ya.rash denotes taking and holding land or property, displacing others from it, and sometimes succeeding as an heir.

The dominant usage concerns entering, taking, and holding land or other property, often land given for settlement. In other clauses it describes driving peoples from territory or being driven out, while a smaller group of passages concerns succession as an heir.

1. Take and hold land or property · dominant

   Qal forms describe entering and holding a land: in Deuteronomy 1:8 the APB renders the command to enter and “take possession of the land,” and in Deuteronomy 11:31 it renders entering, taking possession, and settling there. The same use extends to a vineyard in 1 Kings 21:15 and to Samaria in 2 Kings 17:24; Ezekiel 36:12 presents Israel as possessing the land and receiving it as an inheritance.

   Deuteronomy 1:8Deuteronomy 11:311 Kings 21:152 Kings 17:24Ezekiel 36:12Deuteronomy 28:42
2. Dispossess or drive occupants from a land · common

   The term can focus on removing a people from territory so that another party takes it. In Deuteronomy 4:38 and Exodus 34:24, Hiphil forms occur where the LORD removes nations from before Israel; in Deuteronomy 12:29, a Qal form stands in the clause about dispossessing nations and dwelling in their land.

   Deuteronomy 4:38Exodus 34:24Deuteronomy 12:29Deuteronomy 11:231 Kings 14:242 Chronicles 20:11
3. Succeed as an heir · occasional

   In succession settings, Qal forms concern who will receive another's estate or standing. Genesis 15:4 contrasts “this one” with one coming from the speaker's body who shall possess him; Genesis 21:10 denies that the maidservant's son will possess with Isaac, and 2 Samuel 14:7 calls the threatened survivor “the heir” in the APB.

   Genesis 15:4Genesis 21:102 Samuel 14:7
4. Be dispossessed · rare

   Genesis 45:11 uses a Niphal imperfect in a warning that famine might leave the addressed household without what belongs to it. The APB renders the result “be dispossessed.”

   Genesis 45:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB uses “possess,” “take possession,” “dispossess,” “drive out,” and, in a succession setting, “heir.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings indicate the clauses' presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent for each form.